On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 18:37 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > But MAC address is not bad > > And the MAC of which card? Face it, there is no other reliable way than > to use a hostid file. MAC addresses contained in the eeproms of network equipment are absolutely unique and singular. There is no possibility of the a MAC address having plurality unless the MAC address in the eeprom contained in the network equipment has been altered by someone with a hex editor and an eeprom burner. Sure, you can alias the MAC address using software, but the MAC address in the eeprom is *never* altered. Best regards Marvin Dickens Incidentally, this is the last email I will be sending using Evolution. I've had as much fun with it as I can stand. I'm switching to Thunderbird (Compiled from source).
